Double-Dog-Dare Train Travel

While we are on the topic of “iron” (What, you didn’t know we were on the topic of “iron” – or on a topic at all for that matter? Well we are. Read my last post to catch up…)

Anyway, like I was saying, while we are on the topic of “iron” we would be remiss not to take note of this thread on the Lonely Planet forums in which zombie12 provides a trip report describing a recent experience riding the iron ore train of Mauritania.

To be honest, I had to look it up, as I had never heard of this particular iron ore train. But as it turns out, it is quite famous and fascinating: